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Famous quotes containing the word destroy:

    Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
    Wendell Mayes, U.S. screenwriter. Otto Preminger. CINCPAC II (Henry Fonda)

    The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
    Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues, and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)